Although there had been several superhero teams on Japanese television, the granddaddy of the whole "color-coded superhero team" concept is the live-action Super Sentaitoku franchise which began in 1975, which is better known to western audiences as the source material for Power Rangers.

A very western form of Sentai is to feature five teenagers receiving powers, with a transformation, i.e. it doesn't have to involve color-coding, or full body suits. They may not even transform at all, but have powers that combine to make a greater whole.

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Contrary to popular belief, "Sentai" ONLY denotes to shows that have a squad of nigh-identical, color-coded superheroes, not every transforming superhero that comes from Japan (the proper term for that would be Henshin Hero, that belongs in the Tokusatsu genre).

Mahou Sensei Negima!: In an obvious parody of Super Sentai/Power Rangers, the five girls from Negi's class with the lowest grades dub themselves the "Baka Rangers," complete with appropriate "hero names," like "Baka Red" and "Baka Pink". For clarification: Red = Asuna, Blue = Kaede, Yellow = Fei, Black = Yue, Pink = Makie. During the festival story arc in the manga, there is the "Maho(ra) Rangers" performing on a stage.

Sgt. Frog does a few parodies of the Sentai genre. Episode 24 introduces Space Detective Kogoro, an explicit parody of Kenji Ooba in his role as the title character of the Toku series Space Sheriff Gavan.

Spoofed in Mai-HiME, where Midori (the one who Jumped at the Call, thinking she's Sailor Moon) proposes teaming up into the "HiME Rangers" to fight the monsters of the week more effectively. The two HiMEs who dismiss the idea as ridiculous ( Natsuki and Nao) are tied up and dragged to the meeting place anyway.

The Ginyu Force of Dragon Ball Z are a parody of this trope: there are five of them (instead of the four which are traditional in villainous groups), it's their skin that's different colors instead of their costumes, and they constantly strike poses and throw group attacks. In fact, when recruiting new members for the team, Captain Ginyu is mostly concerned with their posing ability.

Dragon Ball Super later introduces heroic Sentai escs in the form of Universe 11's Pride Troopers.

Magical Pokaan has a singular, Sentai-based episode that becomes increasingly silly. Since the show only has four leading girls, the fifth spot is filled by no one — the green suit is an empty shell. On top of that, the team's Combining Mecha never forms correctly, with mishaps ranging from a missing component to five copies of the same component attempting to fuse together. The end of the episode is a stream of random gags that would take too long to explain here. (There actually is a fifth ranger. She just happens to be invisible.)

The manga is somewhere between a Deconstruction and Parody of this genre. The Municipal Team Daitenzin is Sentai group made up by the local government to fight the evil organization ACROSS, but it's staffed by a collection of disinterested or stupid employees who do more damage than they fix.

The anime, meanwhile, throws out the serious elements and goes into full-blown parody with Municipal Team Daitenzin.

School Days' OVA Magical Heart Kokoro-chan has elements of this and Magical Girl in it. In this particular instance, the team of powered heroines is working for low pay, using a vacuum cleaner as a weapon and has particularly kinky outfits for their battling.

Parodied and deconstructed: Takeshi, a sprinter with a bone disorder, goes to Fran and receives surgery to rebuild his body. Unfortunately, several other sprinters received the same surgery — when they all break the world record, he's discredited and disgraced. The others beat the crap out of him, so he gets more surgery and becomes a sentai hero named Sentinel. Then he becomes a Knight Templar, beating people up for littering, until finally his victim's family members gun him down. He receives one more surgery, leaving him monstrous... and in his new form he is attacked and killed by more sentai. The end of the chapter shows the city in a riot of Let's You and Him Fight battles, while Fran is complaining that everyone wants superpowers but nobody wants to pay for them.

Parodied again when Veronica encounters a society of sentient talking roaches, complete with superheroes. Two single superheroes (Superroach and Batroach, going by their costumes) tell her the big thing right now is superhero teams, with a giant robot (well, human-sized) attacking the city (it turns out to be piloted by Fran to give Veronica something to do).

Most shows about Combining Mecha use the sentai style to some extent — in fact there's even a Combining Mecha anime called Chojin Sentai Balatack, which includes the Five-Man Band with color-coded outfits. About the only thing these sorts of shows don't use is the "Super Sentai" Stance, since typically the heroes rarely fight outside their vehicles or robots, but even so, the combined robot will usually do plenty of posing upon combining.

One of the earliest strips in GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class has the five lead girls becoming the "Color Rangers". Keeping with the art theme, they're yellow, magenta, cyan and monochrome. Except for Tomokane, who's red, because every good Sentai team needs a red leader.

A Show Within a Show example is the Star Rangers. Akihiko is a huge fan of them, to the point that when anyone so much as mentions the show, he starts to think he is Red Star. He seems equally convinced that the rest of the main cast are the other Star Rangers.

At Akihikos house, he is watching Star Rangers, with his arm and head bandaged: Star Rangers narrator:After destroying the Evil Base, the Star Rangers put hope back on the young boys heart. Today, they fought for justice yet again.

Akihiko: Dramatically standing up adopting an Ass-Kicking PoseDont forget to watch next week!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who already shared superficial similarities to Sentai, were turned into this outright for the Japanese OVA Mutant Turtles: Legend of the Super Mutants—complete with the gigantic super-form "Turtle Saint".

In the Fruits Basket manga, Kakeru seems determined to turn the student council into a proper "School Defense Force" and starts assigning colors. He claims Black for himself (because he thinks it would make him seem cool and mysterious) and, after teasing Yuki about how his pretty face should make him Pink, gives him Red for being student council president. Kimi insists on being Pink and sticks Machi with Yellow (like Beat above, Kimi claims it's because Machi likes curry so much). Naohito just plain refuses to play along. And Ayame is named the Commander immediately after Kakeru meets him, much to his delight.

Angel Blade, once the series added enough girls, ended up becoming...a Sentai Hentai.

Mitsudomoe has the Show Within a ShowHonki Sentai Gachiranger. As Mitsudomoe is wont to do, the show seems a little more sexually charged than usual for a Sunday morning TV show. Hitoha is a huge fan.

Also spoofed in Yumeria: once all the girls are active in the dream world, they look at their individually-colored outfits and their attacks, and decide they need attack names and a victory pose.

Level E has a whole story arc of the anime version devoted to several kids who were pranked into becoming a Sentai team because... well, Prince Baka felt like it!

Jewelpet Kira Deco! subverts this by stripping its titular (and very over-the-top) sentai team of their powers after they enter Jewel Land in episode 2. Each member does his/her own thing for the majority of the series instead of doing... sentai things.

Parodied in Heroes Are Extinct - the protagonist Cassiel is a general in an aggressive space-faring empire, and his lifelong dream has always been to attack the Earth to do battle with the hero teams that hes seen in intercepted television broadcasts (he's a bit of an Otaku). Unfortunately for him, in this story sentai don't exist. Not willing to take this lying down, he secretly kidnaps a random group of teenagers and provides them with training and advanced technology so that hell have someone worthy to fight. Since this is basically treason, Cassiel has to pull a balancing act, cultivating his Terra Rangers while attacking them, all in secret from the empires high command (including his love interest, the princess/stock sentai villainess).

Parodied again in Imperfect Hero - the hero is the green ranger in the high school battalion unit, Gakusei 5 (G5 for short), the special unit trained to fight and protect Earth against the invasion of the dreaded Galactic force "Gurdark" and its sexy queen Mayura. Unfortunately for our hero, he's a loser who can't fight and relies on his teammates to cover for him. Not only that, after he helps Mayura while in his civilian form, she moves in with him, and falls in love with him.

Another parody in Future Diary, with the Twelfth, who mind-controls four random bystanders into becoming the other members of his squad.

One Piece introduces Sanji's family, the Vinsmokes, a royal family of killing warmongers. Their colorful clothing and formation resemble Power Rangers. They dress up in their fighting clothes by using belt and writ devices.

Pokémon Sun and Moon has the heroes becoming the Pokemon Trainer version of this as the Ultra Guardians, tasked to bringing the Ultra Beasts back to their home. Lusamine plays it up by coming up with a cheesy response phrase for them (to her daughter Lillie's embarrassment).

Parodied in the Naruto doujinshi "Dorodorodororon", with Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura forming the ninja squad 'Ninja-Man'.

Green Lantern has picked up some Sentai traits with the "New Guardians" teams, comprised of members from seven color-coded and Personality-Powered Corps. None of these people are much for striking poses, but they have the shonen speeches down cold.

Cazador parodies this with the Powerful Galactic Defenders: CosmoPatagonian Hare, CosmoArmadillo, CosmoCavy, and CosmoTatou. They had a fifth member, CosmoPlatypus, but he died in battle; the title character was invited to replace him, but gave up because he couldn't pronounce the animal's name to power up (that, and he didn't really want to join them to begin with). Their Humongous Mecha looks like a humanoid rabbit.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! card game (also from Japan, not coincidentally), has the Inzektors, an archetype of Insect-Type, Dark-Attribute monsters that resemble Sentai heroes. It also has the Super Quantum archetype, which is based on the Super Sentai/Power Rangers series.

Parodied in The World Ends with You's bonus chapter, "Another Day." After everyone's pins get stolen at a Tin Pin Slammer tournament, Shooter brings Neku and his friends to his "secret base" (really Ramen Don) to form the Tin Pin Rangers and save the day. Shooter calls Red for himself as team leader, Beat gets Yellow because of his love of curry, Neku gets assigned Black n' Blue, much to his annoyance, and Shiki gets Green to match her skirt... but only because Joshua called dibs on Pink. Rhyme joins the team later on and becomes Black, leaving Neku with only Blue, until she leads them all into a trap and reveals herself as the Sixth Ranger Traitor.

Star Ocean: The Second Story: In a Private Action with Leon in Fun City, the "Scummy Rangers" show up in a deliberately over-the-top show where they dispatch evil monsters with the help of the kiddy audience.

Culture Brain intended to bring this to the US under the guise of a superhero team by converting two of their Hiryu no Ken games into one superhero-themed title on the NES, calling it Flying Warriors. They even had a fairly big marketing blitz to go with it, with a multi-issue comic book being published in GamePro. The game itself ended up being swiftly forgotten.

Spoofed in God Hand with the Mad Midget Five: a squad of five characters in colour-coded outfits with high-pitched voices, none of whom even reach the main character's waist, prentending they're super heroes and pulling flashy moves. Add to that their high speed and agility, and you have one of the most annoying boss encounters in the whole game.

Persona 2 brings us Phoenix Ranger Featherman R. They're cliched, but not a parody. And the heroes of Innocent Sin count, as they roleplayed as these heroes in their childhood, and you need all five masks to unlock all five ultimate Personas. Joker, leader of the Masked Circle and the initial antagonist, is one of them, and each executive is a counterpart of the other four heroes.

Phoenix Ranger Featherman R makes a return in Persona 3. Each week you can catch the "next episode" bit on the television in the dorm's lounge.

Featherman is Yuuta's favorite show in Persona 4. P4 Golden allows you to buy Neo Featherman costumes that the heroes can wear while dungeon crawling. Party characters will even perform a "Super Sentai" Stance after winning a battle.

Persona 4: Arena Ultimax: After the events of "The Answer" in Persona 3, Yukari decided to become an actress playing the pink ranger in Phoenix Ranger Featherman Victory, as the leading actress and ranger no less (making her one of the few references where the pink ranger is the lead). As such, her outfit and bow are updated to have a mix of both classic and futuristic themes, and one of her victory poses pays homage to "Super Sentai" Stances.

Persona 5: The Heavy for the bad guys, "Black Mask", dresses as an Evil Costume Switch version of the heroes from Phoenix Ranger Featherman. One of your party members, Yusuke Kitagawa, also has a side-story vignette where he and the protagonists do Super Sentai Stances while trying to figure out how to repair some superhero team action figures he accidentally broke.

Mentioned/Parodied in Tales of the Abyss with the "Abyss Man" costumes for the seven playable characters (if you've already beat the game once). Everyone gets a colour-coded costume (red, orange, blue, green, pink, black, and silver) with a hilarious description. "Abyss Man" is apparently a popular show in-universe, and the Emperor of Malkuth is a huge fan. Considering the two lines given that are evidently direct quotes from the show, it's a parody of the genre.

The Hard Boiled Heavies of Sonic Mania are a downplayed version. They don't have much in the way of personality, but they're a close group of five similar-looking robots that use the most common color set in Super Sentai and Power Rangers.

OxhornShortShorts occasionally featured the Mighty Morphing Midg- er, Little People Gnomes, who could combine into a super form, to varying degrees of success.

Western Animation

American animators have made their own version with a twist: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! features a Sentai-ish team of, well, robot monkeys, complete with different colors and personalities.

Captain Planet and the Planeteers carries much of this concept. Instead of transformations, they use powers from their elemental rings, and combine their powers to call Captain Planet.

Teen Titans also makes reference to sentai with the team colors (Beast Boy: Green, Robin: Red, etc) which are displayed at the end of its upbeat Title Sequence, then of course there's all the team poses.

Parodied in Kim Possible with Team Go, consisting of Mego, Hego, Shego, and the Wego twins.

Big Hero 6 is pretty much a totally straightforward example of this trope, featuring a color-coded six person team, each with their own set of powers and even an (admittedly much smaller then usual) mecha.

Parodied in the ReBoot episode "Nullzilla", where Bob, Dot, Enzo, Frisket and Mike the TV suit up and pilot insect-themed battle droids which merge into a Humongous Mecha in order to battle the titular Nullzilla.

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